Friday
Short day. Only made it 6 hours. Well, I shouldn’t say ‘only.’ “I chose to leave after six hours” would be a more accurate way of saying it. With the exception of the hour from 16:30 – 17:30, the time passed quickly; that hour was the longest three weeks ever!

Went out for a late dinner with Angie and Jen.

NPR/PRI – Quote of the Day (two-for-one): Diane Ackerman, a guest on Talk of the Nation – Science Friday‘s segment on gardening, on the animals that attempt to get into her garden and the measures that she has gone to in order to insure the garden’s safety and prosperity: Deer are not Rhodes scholars.

And, in other NPR/PRI news, on All Things Considered, they talked about a story that was printed in The Onion:

Congress Threatens to Move
A story in The Onion newspaper last month reported that Congress was threatening to move out of Washington unless a new Capitol building was built. Of course, The Onion is a satirical paper, and the story wasn’t true. But that didn’t stop the Beijing Evening News, which reprinted the story for a huge audience in the Chinese capital. Robert Siegel talks with the editor in chief of The Onion newspaper, whose name is also Robert Siegel.

You can read the original article and listen to the ATC interview for yourself.

Peace.